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| View Larger Image | US Spacesuits (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
by Kenneth S. Thomas, Harold J. McMann
| | List Price: | $52.95 | | Price: | $37.16 | | You Save: | $15.79 (30%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 726626 | | Studio: | Praxis | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 397 | | Publication Date: | December 20, 2005 | | Publisher: | Praxis |
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Product Description
The authors will provide both the reader with an appreciation of spacesuits and US suit efforts, through development challenges to their role in space exploration. The text will explain how the routine use of clothing provides a link to the function of spacesuits and why spacesuits are far more than garments. They are a last refuge for survival in disaster or a personalized spacecraft that allows direct contact and interaction with everything beyond our world. Successfully meeting the challenges to creating safe, reliable and comfortable spacesuits is an ongoing effort that has spanned over four decades. The book will detail the technical evolution of U.S. spacesuits from their roots in high altitude aviation and vacuum tube development to the present day, with an additional look into the future. This primary source of spacesuit information will explain the function, historical development, and use of spacesuits from a worldwide perspective in a readable way. The story includes many technically and historically interesting efforts that never reached flight, and were either misunderstood or not widely reported. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 4 reviews)
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Dressed for Space 
This is a highly detailed book on the history of the development of US spacesuits. The book covers not just operational suits used in the space program, but also prototype development to test various concepts.
Compared to Russian spacesuit development, it is apparent that the US was able to expend considerably more in development of designs and resulted in a much richer array of design ideas. Particularly interesting is the issue of joint mobility, especially with gloves.
The illustrations are good, although I personally would have liked more details on the actually engineering of the suit components. Although I understand cost constraints, this book would have benefited from clear color photos of the suits and components, rather than just B&W. However this is a nit pick to what is a very informative book.
September 11, 2007 | |
"Fly me to the Moon...
...and let me play among the stars..."
But how to dress for such jaunts? In theory the idea of a space suit is as old as the idea of spaceflight itself. Actual manned spaceflight is four and a half decades old, but there has been a need for protective suits for high-flying pilots for quite a lot more more than half a century now. And here is the development history of these different garments for gentlemen and nowadays also ladies to wear at any function inside and outside the walls of a spacecraft. Here they all are, from the Imperial German Flying Corp Oxygen Pipe System, ca 1918, to the University of Maryland MX-2 suit prototype of 2002. All the more than 100 designs in almost bewildering detail, with specifications of most of them, thankfully, in both imperial psis and BTUs and (albeit within parentheses) metric measurements. Spacesuits have come a long way, but there is still way to go, before us normal gents and our ladies will feel comfortably dressed for a little play in weightless space or a stroll on the lunar surface. Indeed a "must" book for any aficionado and armchair astronaut!
March 12, 2007 | |
Great Reference!!!!
This book is a great book and a Great companion to Springer-Praxis other space books, especially the volume on Russian Spacesuits and "Spacewalks". It has taught me so much that I never knew and I loved the many pages written about conceptual designs.
March 10, 2006 | |
Spacesuit Information
For a book on a techncial subject, it appears to be well laid out and easy to read. I liked that it took the time to explain the basics surrounding spacesuits. Finding accurate information on spacesuit, their development, use and program history is difficult. This book, like "Russian Spacesuits" from the same publisher, was written by career spacesuit engineers and the text seems to reflect that depth of knowledge.
February 18, 2006 | |
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